I mean, it was childlike and also crazy. Yet there was never a watch shed

In the 2000s, Bernhard and also Philipp Stahl co-organised the Rolex Enthusiasm Conferences, the forerunners to Rolliefest, as a method to bring on-line discussion forum obsessives with each other. The initial was in a little chateau near his place in the southern Netherlands. "It had not been the big shots," he says. "It was about the people with the right mojo as well as the ideal enthusiasm."

At the earliest events there would be perhaps $20m on the table "as well as absolutely no security. Now it's maybe $60m". He bears in mind taking the Rolex collectors right into Maastricht for a Friday night, as well as the bread container on the table of a packed bar was loaded with MilSubs. One individual left $2m--$ 3m of watches[click to shop] in a box on the table as well as mosted likely to consume while his fellow collection agencies attempted them on.

" I mean, it was juvenile and insane," claims Bulang, "But that was the magic of the conference. It's friends. And also," he includes, "There was never a watch lost."